ConkerGuru

Over 4 days gone, and already I've managed to make more changes for the 2.0 version of Kazooa in The Treasure Land. Current list so far:

1. Add a endgame after defeating a boss where the player can earn more coins and treasure(should make getting 99999 coins less of a chore)
2. Fix up some of the game text.
3. Fix any remaining bugs that I’ve missed or simply left in the game.
4. Add the previously planned scene to the end of the 2nd stage of world 2 where Kazooa spots a Dumb-Crow and makes use of him as a flying vehicle.
5. Implement the scrapped minigames, or make new ones to finally have 8 minigames as originally intended.
6. Implement a way to skip the money and treasure countdown at the score tally screen.
7. Instantly freeze the level timer after defeating the last enemy, and make player invincible when that happens.
8. Implement counters showing how many enemies still have to be defeated.
9. Add more things to unlock for more lasting appeal.
10. Implement a proper pause menu.
11. Make it so hidden paths are revealed after the breakable wall is destroyed rather than simply spawn some rock debris.
12. Add a way to more quickly skip to the episode title card screen after selecting a episode.
13. Shift the camera upwards in the final boss so the boss is always in full view.
14. Make some additional Kazooa sprites for the Blooper cutscenes.
15. Fix some of the dialogue timings in the Blooper cutscenes.
16. Change the timing for the laughter track in the Blooper cutscenes.
17. Fix the best ending cutscene not being skipable bug.

The end-of-world minigame is now done. Probably still some balancing needing to be done, particularly the enemies that may fall. I could either limit how many of them may be allowed to spawn at once, or maybe alter their behavior a little when under 20 seconds. I may go for the former though if possible.

At the moment the minigame will appear at random, and it may or may not always be encountered. I'm still undecided on whether I should change this to make it appear more often. Maybe I'll come to a final decision later on...

Other changes include fixing up the game cutscenes, mainly the timings for when the characters switches frames. Additional character frames that previously weren't there, most notably the Uncle-John character. Minor polish to some of the graphics, and many other small changes.

With the endgame now done, I'll be focusing on the new minigames. One of them will involve Kazooa and Uncle John duking it out on a grassy field, with Uncle John driving on a tractor mower, while Kazooa is sitting on top of a lawn mower. The goal of this minigame, and its gameplay I have yet to think through, but I'll try and plan it out on paper first before I go ahead to work on it.

One of the other minigames will see Kazooa and Uncle John challenging each other to some kind of duel, either boxing or something else. Probably boxing. Its gameplay is going to be fairly simple though, so there won't be any complex patterns or so to remember.

Sample screens:
     

Will be uploading more game dev stuff when I can and have time for it, as well as any new drawings I've made recently.

~LucybonesSquirrel